Re: [boost] Re: [boost.tr1?] request for a hash<> implementation

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-05 13:22:38

Daniel James wrote:
> JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z wrote:
>> Do you think we can put your hash<> implementation under
>> boost/functional/hash.hpp and have some short docs for it?
>> Are you planning to improve the hashing algorithms (in particular
>> for strings, which I guess it's the most improvable part)?
> 
> To be honest, I've barely looked at the hash functions so far. All I've 
> done is change them to work on compilers without partial specialization. 
> I'm planning to make improvements, but I'll have to do some research
> into the possible alogorithms first. If anyone has an opinions on this, 
> I'll be very interested.

Take a look at

http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1756.pdf

issue 6.18.